Del Sol Featured Composer-
Julia Wolfe

Julia Wolfe
In an age of trends and fashions, movements and anti-movements, genre and sub-genres, Julia Wolfe's life and work defy easy categorization. On the surface, she seems the quintessential composer for the 90s -- New York-based, politically aware, and, don't forget, female -- and in fact her career has been appropriately meteoric.

Born in Philadelphia in 1958, Ms. Wolfe shined in her studies at Princeton and Yale, receiving a Fulbright Fellowship, and later, a generous assortment of commissions and awards from the Koussevitzky Foundation, Kronos Quartet, the Library of Congress, Cary Trust, Meet the Composer, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, amongst others. Her pieces have been performed by the San Francisco Symphony, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, the American Composers Orchestra, Piano Circus, Orkest de Volharding, the Cassatt Quartet, the Lark Quartet, Ethel, and Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne. In addition to her compositional work, Wolfe is co-founder of New York's Bang on a Can Festival, presenting hundreds of new and unknown works over the past 11 years.